ISLAMABAD: President Zardari’s blessed Gilani government, which makes tall claims about serving the interest of the smaller federating units and leaves no opportunity to use the Sindh card, is betting on the brigade of top Punjabi bureaucrats to run his ...

The farewell was attended by scores of dignitaries, including Deputy Head of Mission Khayyam Akbar, Head of Chancery Abbas Sarwar Qureshi ... I’ll try my best to bring a positive change in the lives of Muslims from the platform of OIC where I’ve ...

Noor Jehan had six brothers - Mian Nawab Din, Gul Muhammad ("Gulloo"), Muhammad Hussain, Muhammad Shafi, Siddique ... when the great Punjabi musician, G. A. Chisti, introduced her to the stage in Lahore. He composed some ghazals, naats and …

facebook.com •
3 years ago

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Noor-Jahan/142348245849639?sk=info

I let the writing guide me”

Sehba Sarwar is a writer and activist originally from Karachi ... I don’t know what currents or waves I’m going to encounter. I let the writing guide me. This past July, Julia Alvarez spoke at Macondo about her writing process.

Jang Group of Newspapers •
3 years ago

http://jang.com.pk/thenews/oct2011-weekly/nos-02-10-2011/lit.htm

Mixed results likely as Karachi sees toughest LB polls today

According to the 1998 census, the total population of this district is 2,27,931 from which about 73 per cent are Urdu-speaking, eight per cent Punjabi-speaking ... JUP central leader Siddique Rathore, JUP Secretary Information Mustaqeem Noorani and ...

“After former governor Chaudhry Muhammad Sarwar’s resignation, an acting governor was appointed to fill the post for the time being,” he said. Petitioner’s counsel Muhammad Azhar Siddique stated that the Punjab Assembly speaker’s appointment …

The three-day activities include Mushahras, Mahafil-i-Naat, recitations of the Heer Waris Shah and Mehfil-i-Sama. On Aug 24, Mushahra and Mehfil-i-Naat will be organised in which noted Punjabi poets ... Punjab Governor Muhammad Sarwar is expected to ...

Dawn •
4 years ago

http://www.dawn.com/news/1127350

Karbala and India’s rich cultural tradition

Others showed their reverence by writing some of the best marsiyas. This famous couplet haunts many: Lata Mangeshkar’s rendition of Mir Anees’ marsiya is one of the many examples of devotional practices which cut across narrowly defined religious ...

The PTI has a similar opportunity in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (K-P). It should be kept in mind, however, that while Modi was given a thriving Gujarat to show his skills as a leader, Imran Khan and PTI is left to work with a volatile K-P that is distraught by ...